Intersecting tango
Subtitle: cultural geographies of Buenos Aires, 1900-1930
By: Adriana J. Bergero ; translated by Richard Young.
Series: Illuminations; Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780822943181; 9780822959854
Subjects: National characteristics, Argentine; Buenos Aires (Argentina) -- History -- 20th century; Buenos Aires (Argentina) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The jockey club; title: Palaces and residences; title: Parks, plazas, and Calle Florida; title: Passages, public spaces, and cultural crossings; title: Theaters and cafés; title: Conventillos; title: Paradigms and deviations; title: Work, the body, and dislocations of identity; title: Chains of desire; title: Palaces of temptation; title: Beauties, femmes fatales, tramps, vamps, and vampires; title: Rags and rejects; title: Reaffirming old paradigms; title: New alliances, old causes; title: Putting out fires; title: Fractured identities and economic dislocation; title: The garçonieres and the sex of power; title: In-between identities, peripheral sexualities; title: The weak, the violent, and the tearful; title: Barrios and melodramas : of love and consternation